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HENDERSON’S 
PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
The Iris Gardens of Japan 
The Japanese Irises (/. Kamp- 
feri) are magnificent hardy- flow- 
ering plants, growing 2 to 3 feet 
high, forming large clumps and 
bearing during June and July im- 
mense flat flowers, the colors and 
variegations of which are innu- 
merable and of rare beauty. 
These Irises are moisture -loving, 
and, although they will thrive in 
ordinary gardens, they attain their 
greatest perfection of growth in 
a deep, rich, moist soil, as along 
the borders of streams, etc. In 
Japan the Iris gardens are usually 
situated so that they can at times 
be flooded. 
A Wistaria - Fringed 
Japanese Arbor 
The "Japs” are very fond of 
their magnificent Wistarias, which 
they train in all sorts of ways : 
but none is more popular than 
on a garden arbor. They think 
that a Wistaria against a wall 
loses all grace and beauty, and 
prefer the long tassels of purple 
and white flowers to fringe some 
structure such as we portray at 
the left. 
